Led a 15-member team to deliver secure, accessible web products

• Orchestrated the full agile delivery lifecycle, to include requirements gathering, ticket estimation, sprint planning, standups, retrospectives and support
• Streamlined onboarding with containerized development environments, reducing setup time from days to minutes and saving hundreds of hours annually utilizing Coder
• Mentored junior developers, enhancing their technical skills and guiding their professional growth and development
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including product management and User Experience to define project scope and requirements
• Managed stakeholder communications and roadmaps, ensuring transparency and timely updates, resulting in improved stakeholder trust and project visibility
• Oversaw cross-organizational migration of a critical analysis platform; ensured uninterrupted mission continuity

Built scalable event-driven micro-services to process/store and search through unstructured data

• Designed and implemented LLM integrations to include summarization and semantic search
• Built and deployed scalable, containerized backend micro-services and web interfaces to private clouds and AWS
• Managed DevOps tasks for the team to include managing proxies (HAProxy/Traefik), build servers (Jenkins), Docker Compose stack files, an ELK stack, logging (Filebeat) and distributed tracing infrastructure (Jaeger/OpenTelemetry)
• Participated in robust code review processes to enforce best practices and reduce the introduction of new defects
• Researched and pushed for adoption of newer technologies and tooling, increasing development efficiency and team velocity (Spring Boot/Redux Toolkit/Vite)
• Built RESTful services that communicate over JMS
• Integrated with multiple external services to include data warehouses, video/image (OCR/Facial Recognition), speech (STT), text (similarity/NER) analytic stores, LLM services, and S3-compatible object stores
• Extensive X.509/Mutual TLS experience
• Deployment and maintenance of multiple MongoDB clusters
• Deployed and maintained dev/staging/production Docker swarm clusters consisting of 100+ servers processing 5M+ events and thousands of users per day
• Debugged and resolved numerous issues both frontend and backend, performance, and functional
• Integrated Apache Lucene for language tokenization in word clouds
• Built a content parsing and display pipeline as well as the accompanying visualizations
• Implemented regex-based keyword list searching over large datasets as well as regex optimizations using tries
• Developed a modular dashboard framework allowing external teams to plug in custom visualizations
• Analyzed Java heap dumps to detect and resolve memory-related issues
• Centralized metrics and observability with InfluxDB + Grafana dashboards
• Set up and configured HAProxy including TLS hardening
• Performed MongoDB query optimization
• Designed purge and age-off compliance mechanisms
• Implemented a web socket to enable real-time updates in the UI
• Researched efficient algorithms to solve real-world problems (Union-Find/Disjoint-set)

• Gathered requirements from customers and identified needs/pain points
• Advised on technical solutions and business processes
• Analyzed current business practices, then found and implemented improvements
• Optimized workflows, implemented automations to replace tedious and recurring processes
• Conducted postmortems for continuous improvement
• Deployed web servers to host E-Commerce sites
• Analyzed traffic patterns to identify and mitigate bad actors (Ex: rate-limiting)
• Integrated with QuickBooks to enable automatic sales receipt and bill creation

• Managed an enterprise network with approximately 500 endpoints
• Inventoried technical assets across the region
• Deployed new endpoints to employees after imaging and recovering old endpoints
• Built new systems for custom solutions to replace outdated and insecure machines

• Helped students resolve issues they encountered on class projects
• Proctored weekly assessments

• Packed and sorted products, averaging over 1,200 products per hour
• Top 5% of Associates